Portion of the original fence that protected th...

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Portion of the original fence that protected the campus trees from the Great Tokyo Air Raid

The original concrete fence was built after the Great Kanto Earthquake. On the 10th of March 1945, when the Great Tokyo Air Raid erupted, many of the trees in the campus were burnt down by the blazing fire from a food-storage warehouse on the other side of the Kiyosumi Street. Thanks to this fence, however, the roots of the trees were not dameged, and new trees grew again. On the 29th of June 2012, when the original concrete fence was replaced with a new aluminum fence, this part of the old fence was intentionally left unremoved to commemorate its role as the protector of the campustrees.

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